Intra-table navigation thanks to fragment identifier fails in IE 8

Navigating into a table to a linked table-row with an id attribute should succeed

Steps to reproduce: activate or click this link

Expected result: the targeted table-row should scroll into view: you should navigate into the table below, precisely at the green table row which says "Success ..."

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Credit must go to BootNic for initially, originally reporting this bug in alt.html thread "IE 8 Table Row Anchor" and to Andreas Prilop in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html thread "ID attribute for table row".

Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.5.5, Opera 10.01, Safari 4.0.4, Konqueror 4.3.3, NS 7.2 and Seamonkey 2.x pass this test.

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